Spencer Organ has been putting his making skills to use with this Harry Potter-inspired build. Taking his cue from both the Weasley Clock and the Marauders’ Map, he’s taken a Raspberry Pi, an Explorer HAT, an Arduino, some servos and…
Category: Networking
PoisonTap is a Raspberry Pi Zero security threat worth taking note of
I wasn’t going to blog this as it’s a pretty horrid use of the Pi, but I wanted to highlight the security concern! PoisonTap is a Raspberry Pi Zero/Node.js hacking machine. According to the maker’s website, it: siphons cookies, exposes…
Connect your Raspberry Pi to the Internet using an Ethernet cable
San Diego based Dave Johnson had a problem: he was due to be using his Raspberry Pi to demonstrate IoT applications using Node.js in a speaking engagement. This meant that he needed to be able to connect the Raspberry Pi to…
Turn your Raspberry Pi into a wi-fi access point
Lady Ada over at Adafruit has updated their guide for turning a Raspberry Pi into an access point. Now working with the Raspberry Pi 3, the guide works with the latest Raspbian Jessie and uses either an external wi-fi dongle…
Find out who’s at home or in the office by using a Raspberry Pi and Initial State
Rachel Gregory, over at IoT company Initial State, has just published an excellent tutorial that takes you through the steps required to write a “who’s at home/who’s in the office” service. The tutorial uses a Raspberry Pi Zero (any Pi…
Easy penetration testing using your Raspberry Pi and Warberry Pi
It has been possible to do penetration testing using your Pi for some time now, particularly with Kali Linux. However, it has now been made even simpler with a set of scripts known as Warberry Pi. The set of scripts…
Turn your Raspberry Pi (Zero) into a dedicated VPN server
Transposed Messenger has written a great tutorial in which he explains how to turn your Raspberry Pi into a dedicated VPN. This will work with all Raspberry Pis, not just the Zero but he’s used the Zero because it’s cheap…
Boot your Raspberry Pi through an Ethernet cable
Gordon Hollingworth has just published his second blog post on the Pi’s new booting modes. This one is all about booting over Ethernet with no SD card on the client Pi. The new functionality is documented here and there’s a…
Directly connect to and program your Raspberry Pi Zero over USB
For a while, it has been possible to communicate and program a Raspberry Pi Zero via it’s USB data port. I’ve covered this useful feature before, beginning with Andrew Mulholland’s original work but I feel it’s worth covering again, particularly when…
Mobile data and GPS enabled Raspberry Pi Zero
Rachel Gibbs, over at Initial State, has written a great tutorial which gets a Pi Zero online via a mobile data connection. She’s added a GPS module to the FONA board and then powered the lot using a small LIPO…